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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."

"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."

"Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages."

"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
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"I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers."

"I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase."

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men."

"Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads."
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